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We saw it coming. It happened last summer, the tell tale tip off that hinted at how bad the economy had become. One of our most popular services, something we call Express Screen Licenses, showed a dramatic drop off.
Express Screens are what we call our world-class sales candidate assessments. Licenses allow clients to use them on an unlimited basis for a year. The drop off could only indicate three possible scenarios:
1. clients had stopped hiring salespeople
2. clients were cutting back on their spending
3. clients were dissatisfied with our service
Even though we were extremely certain that scenario #3 was not in play, we explored the option thoroughly and concluded that dissatisfaction was as far from the real reason as the age difference between McCain and Obama.
Our research into the drop off also revealed that clients had stopped hiring salespeople for two reasons:
1. the salespeople they hired using our assessments were succeeding and they didn't need to hire any more.
2. their plans to hire additional salespeople were placed on hold because they were being conservative and cutting back on their spending.
Today's article isn't about being more aggressive in the current economy, although I'm certain to cover that topic in an upcoming post. Today's article is about this week. The dog days of August during an uncertain economy.
We saw it again. It happened this summer, the tell tale tip off that things are turning around, that CEO's are feeling confident enough to resume hiring salespeople. Express Screens Licenses have shown a significant upswing and there are suddenly many more in the pipeline.
While Express Screen Licenses are a fairly small part of our company's revenue, they are a huge factor in our client's hiring successes and a major indicator of economic health. If what we saw in the middle of this summer is as predictive as what we saw in the middle of last summer, the economy will begin to improve within 12 months and should be humming again sometime after that.
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About the Author: Dave Kurlan RSS for Dave's articles - Visit Dave's website Dave Kurlan is a best-selling author, top-rated speaker and thought leader on sales development. He is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling (Dan Seidman), Stepping Stones (Deepak Chopra and Brian Tracey) and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 (David Riklan). Click here to visit Dave's website. Visual Pipeline Salesperson Selection Predict Sales Turnover |
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